Working from home with baby or a toddler
I keep hearing and reading about people working from home while looking after a baby or toddler.
No judgement, I’m just genuinely curious about how you manage this?!
What type of jobs do you have? And do your work place know you do it?
Also what is your reason for doing so, not wanting child in nursery or not being able to afford to?
I work from home, in a finance role and couldn’t imagine to be able to do both.
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I also work from home in a finance role and it simply wouldn’t be possible for me to look after my toddler at the same time!
I’m in finance too , same honestly I really want to know how some people are managing!
I work from home for 2 days with an almost 12 month old. My job isn't really busy all the time but there are moments where I need to focus and the past 3 months have become impossible to do that😅 so we are looking at placing him in nursery. My workplace is not aware I look after him while working and it's now becoming unfair on my colleague!
Its also worth noting that most of workplaces have a WFH policy, which often doesn’t allow remote work to replace childcare as balancing both simultaneously can create performance and compliance issues. A friend of a friend got a warning after customer complained they could hear her toddler screaming in the background whilst on the call 😬 I totally get why people do it though - little choice if you don’t have a support system/financial safety net
It wouldn’t work for a contact centre. Customer heard a random child in the main office four desks away. Plus calls are recorded.
No workplace is going to allow this, so i expect the people who do, arent being honest with their workplace
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I keep hearing and reading about people working from home while looking after a baby or toddler.
No judgement, I’m just genuinely curious about how you manage this?!
What type of jobs do you have? And do your work place know you do it?
Also what is your reason for doing so, not wanting child in nursery or not being able to afford to?
I work from home, in a finance role and couldn’t imagine to be able to do both.
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